US Physical Geography Notes

The Mississippi River empties into the

• Caribbean Sea

• Gulf of Mexico

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

Between the Gulf Costal Plain and the Appalachian mountains is an area of rolling foothills know as the

• Interior Lowlands

• Piedmont

• Intermountain Basin

• Colorado Plateau

The peaks of the Appalachian mountains are rounded and the Rockies are jagged. This tells us that the Rockies are older and the Appalachian are younger.

• True

• False

The interior lowlands is what three sub-regions

• Great Plains

• Piedmont

• Interior Plains

• Canadian Shield

The ____________ is the high point on the Rockies an separate rivers that flow west to the Pacific or East to the Gulf of Mexico

The Blue Ridge Mountains Are

50% of the oil refining industry is in California

• True

• False

The three subregions of the Intermountain Basin and Plateau region is

• Interior Highlands

• Columbia Plateau

• Colorado Plateau

• Great Basin

Match the mountains

a

b

c

Sierra Nevada Mountains

Cascade Mountains

Rocky Mountains

Rivers from the Great Basin drain to the Pacific Ocean

• True

• False